Drug Tariff for England and Wales

If an item is listed in Part VIII of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales, that is the price that the pharmacy will be reimbursed for supplying the item, irrespective of the brand supplied. 

The Northern Ireland Drug Tariff contains similar information to the Drug Tariff for England and Wales. It is divided into 13 parts (including the general notes) as detailed below. 

This part lists those chemical reagents which may be prescribed on an NHS prescription form and is similar in composition to Part IXR of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales (see Section 2.4.1). 

Borderline substances are described by the Drug Tariff for England and Wales as follows ... 

Part XVIIIA of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales and Part XIA of the Northern Ireland Drug Tariff lists those drugs and other substances not to be prescribed on an NHS prescription form. These sections were colloquially referred to as the black list, although this is a term that is not used much nowadays. Similar information for Scotland is contained in Schedule 10 to the NHS (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992. 

However, dentists may also prescribe medicinal products on an NHS prescription form. For England and Wales, this prescribing must be limited to those items listed in Part XVIIA of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales (see Section 2.4.1), for Northern Ireland, those items listed in Part IXA of the Northern Ireland Drug Tariff (see Section 2.4.2) and for Scotland those items listed on Part 8A of the Scottish Drug Tariff (see Section 2.4.3). Only those items listed within these parts of the respective Drug Tariffs may be prescribed by a dentist on an NHS dental prescription form. 

You may wish to advise the patient of other items that are available on NHS prescription forms for patients with gluten sensitive enteropathies. Where would you find the necessary information Information as to which products can be prescribed on an NHS prescription can be found by consulting the Drug Tariff (see Section 2.4). Specific foods (i.e. borderline substances) can be found in the respective parts of the Drug Tariff for England and Wales (see Section 2.4.1, Part XV) or the Northern Ireland Drug Tariff (see Section 2.4.2, Part X) or in Appendix 7 of the British National Formulary (see Section 2.6.1). 

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